Category Archives: GMOs
Galway Food Festival calling
Listen. What’s that noise?
It’s Galway calling. I’ve been trying to ignore it for days, even weeks, but it won’t stop at me.
The city that’s really a village (in the same way that Dublin’s really a town) is throwing another party this weekend you see. And like all great parties – something this village-city knows a thing or two about – the best action is going to be in the kitchen.
They’re calling this party a food festival, or ‘Galway Food Festival’ to be precise, but of course a party is a party by any other name. Especially when you’ve the likes of Mr Whippy Soundsystem whipping up a soundtrack for the Feast on a Street in Crane Square on Easter Monday afternoon (with roast pig-on-a-spit from Kai & Cava, and a potato-carrying competition to boot). Read the rest of this entry
Filed in Artisan food producers, GMOs, Ireland, Issues, Travel
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Your Future, Your Food
We need to talk. I haven’t been blogging much in recent weeks. I feel I need to explain.
You might think it’s because I’ve been busy off living my life, not giving you a second thought. But quite the contrary. It’s not me I’ve been thinking about, it’s you. Or to be more precise, your food.
Yes, the future of your food has been quite the recurring theme in my offline life of late. Read the rest of this entry
Tomorrow’s decisions re GMOs in Ireland
A brief posting this and one I’ll follow up on, but I attended a press conference today which was called to raise awareness that our outgoing Minister for Agriculture Brendan Smyth is, in the last few days of governance, travelling … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in GMOs, Issues
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